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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today's episode will start in three minutes, but first, I want to tell you a little bit about |
0:05.8 | Legos founder, O'Lei Kirk Christensen. |
0:09.0 | One of the people featured in my new book, Five Mere Christians, binge-worthy biographies |
0:15.0 | that show you how to glorify God in your work. |
0:18.6 | Now, listen, everybody knows the name Lego, |
0:24.4 | but very few people know the name O'Lec Kirk Christensen, |
0:28.5 | which is a shame in my opinion because his story is wild. |
0:34.7 | This guy was a modern-day Job who watched the Lego factory go up in flames. |
0:37.6 | Not once, not twice, but three times. |
0:43.4 | He spent years on the brink of bankruptcy, and he suffered the unimaginable loss of a child and his wife in the span of just a few days. |
0:47.0 | And yet, like his biblical counterpart, Job, this guy consistently declared the Lord gives, |
0:54.0 | the Lord take the way, blessed be the name of the Lord. |
0:58.4 | He clung tightly to the promise of Romans 828, that in all things, even the most terrible |
1:04.7 | ones, he knew that God was working everything for the good of those who love him. |
1:11.1 | O'Lay Kirk Christians and glorify God by persevering through unimaginable trials and faith. |
1:16.6 | And when you see how he did that practically, you can too. |
1:21.3 | This is exactly why I wrote five mere Christians, you guys. |
1:24.1 | Listen, in most of my books, I am telling you how you and i can glorify god in our work but now |
1:30.8 | i get to show you what that looks like practically through some of my favorite stories of all time |
1:38.3 | and i can't wait to hear what you think of these stories so for the first time ever |
1:43.1 | i'm offering an interactive reading experience for anyone who pre-orders the book. |
1:49.0 | So here's how this is going to work. |
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